Learning+while+sleeping

= //Learning while asleep // = =Why do people learn better while they sleep? =
 * Luis Herrera #14 **
 * English 7 A **
 * March 25, 2011 ** **Learning **

I have been researching about if people can learn while asleep and it is possible. The brain works all day long and it rests until you stop thinking and take break and sleep. When you sleep, the brain relaxes and cools down so that it is ready to work next day because it gets tiered. I f you give it information while it is resting and broad to memorize; it would be very easy for memorizing quick because there is no lag. You also need to drink a lot of water because it consumes water when you think so you must maintain it hydrate so you can think quick and smarter. There was an experiment on November 18, 2006 applied by Mr. Bower. His investigation proved that people could memorize better while asleep and get use to it to make it better each time. He got 13 volunteers and put them to sleep 60 minutes while he record them a CD 46 word pairs in English. They woke up and remembered 37 word pairs out of the 46. Next day he did the same but with 41 word pairs and when they woke up, they remembered 39 of them. The volunteers got a little bit use and make it easier for them to memorize it. There was another experiment performed by volunteer that a reporter named Ms. Block gathered. It was tried on November 19, 2009 and proved that people could study for a test while asleep. He put them a CD about a subject during 30 minutes of their sleep and they were test after the 30 minutes. They all did great in the test in which they knew very little but they were not prepared to take it. Cheryl Tan did a similar experiment based of two groups on May 21, 2009. The teams were of 5 men that heard a CD with 15 letter words and 5 men that did not heard the CD during 30 minutes. The half that heard the CD memorized the words in a single read awake and the other half took much longer to learn them by hard. So this means that if you hear a CD while asleep, when you wake up you should read what you heard once and you would now it by hard. This next test which I research on was incredible. I didn’t find the name of the author or the one who did the experiment and it talks about Language Learning. They tested a young man by telling him to hear a CD with French to English translation during 14 days all night long. The young man agreed because it was free and it would benefit him so he did as they told him to do it. He played the CD during 14 nights and on the 15th day he had learned basic (colors, animals, clothes, verbs, adjectives, expressions, etc) French to perfection without even noticing it.

** Time Recorded Words Recorded Words Memorized ** ** ﻿30 min/ 47 words pairs recorded/ 37 word pairs remembered ** ** 30 min/ 41 words pairs recorded/ 39 word pairs remembered **

 With my investigation about learning while asleep I got to main ideas; 1st that people can learn better while asleep because of the brains condition and 2nd that people get use to it and would perform or memorize better each time and they can learn a Language while asleep. These ideas are similar because with my first main idea, I got to my second main idea because they are like a continuation. I believe that my research is true because sometimes I sleep with my IPod playing a song all night long and I memorize it by the next day. I am satisfied with my research because now I know a lot about this topic and I have no more doubts except for two. I would only want to know how much do your memories stay in your head and also I would want to research about an opinion of somebody that doesn’t believe in people learning while asleep.

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